Somewhere between late nights in the library unpacking the work of Virginia Woolf and newsroom days reviewing the latest Bon Iver album, Avery recognized podcasts as a uniquely portable and accessible form of media for busy students like herself.

Students may design their own memes and test the quality of their creations using engagement on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter as a gauge of success in a new course titled “How to Give Good Meme,” offered at The New School. The course will tackle the cultural phenomenon that spawned viral items like Harambe, Doge and dancing Drake gifs.

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create a web serieshow do I start?

If you’ve ever contemplated starting a video project and didn’t know where to start, consider starting with a script. Michael Wolff, creator of ‘The Triplets of Kings County’ says that the script is the foundation of everything. Once you’ve done the legwork of writing a script, you will know that you are passionate about it. So act now. Get your ideas down on paper. Tell your story.